Enviroment,+Art,+Sensing

**Tuesday, April 25 4:00-5:30pm** CBIS Auditorium


 * Art_X Panel **

//** Environment, **// //** Art, Sensing **//


 * Nina C. Young ** is a composer joining the Rensselaer faculty last fall as Asst. Prof. of the Arts. Her background includes undergraduate studies at MIT, where she received degrees in ocean engineering and music, and her recent doctorate in music composition from Columbia University. Her works have been presented by leading cultural institutions such as Carnegie Hall, the National Gallery, the Whitney, Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Next on the Grand, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Liquid Music Series. She is currently co-artistic director of the New York-based new music sinfonietta Ensemble Echappe. Nina will discuss the development of a new multimedia opera, “Making Tellus: Sketches of a Cosmogram for the Anthropocene," a work for voices, mixed chamber ensemble, sustainable fashion, and interactive media that addresses the current socio-political conversation surrounding human intervention and the Earth’s rapidly changing geology.


 * The Asthma Files Research Group ** (led by Professors Kim and Mike Fortun, Department of Science and Technology Studies) studies the cultural dimensions of environmental health, and has built research infrastructure to advance deeply interdisciplinary environmental health knowledge. One current project (partly funded by NSF) examines air pollution governance in ten cities in the United States and Asia, tracking the development of air pollution data and science and their policy uses. Data visualization is a critical part of air pollution governance. In this presentation, the group will share air quality visualizations from their ever-growing, global archive, explicating the ways technical, political and cultural dimensions of data entwine -- pointing to the need for data education that addresses this. The presentation will showcase the work of students Lindsay Poirier, Yarden Ne'eman and Bohan Chen.

//The Art_X Interdisciplinary Seminar (AXIS) series presents lectures and discussions examining the intersections of Science, Engineering, Business and Art, as well as projects and initiatives of Art_X @ Rensselaer. The series is a joint effort of the Depts. of Science and Technology Studies, Arts, The Center for Materials, Devices and Integrated Systems (cMDIS), Center for Deep Listening (CDL), and the Art_X Steering Committee. //